Category: 1872

83 U.S. 366 83 U.S. 366 21 L.Ed. 287 16 Wall. 366 TAYLORv.TAINTOR, TREASURER. December Term, 1872 IN error to the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut; in which court William Taylor, Barnabas Allen, and one Edward McGuire were plaintiffs in error, and Taintor, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, was defendant […]

83 U.S. 336 83 U.S. 336 21 L.Ed. 469 16 Wall. 336 RIPLEYv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1872 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Michigan; the case being this: On the 8th of May, 1869, one Ripley took out an accident policy of insurance on his life, ‘good for one day,’ for […]

83 U.S. 338 83 U.S. 338 21 L.Ed. 499 16 Wall. 338 MERRILLv.PETTY. December Term, 1872 On motion to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, the case was thus: A schooner (the Mary Eveline) sailing down Hell Gate (towards New York), came into collision with a sloop […]

83 U.S. 348 83 U.S. 348 21 L.Ed. 501 16 Wall. 348 THE MARY EVELINE. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. On the afternoon of September 20th, 1868, the sloop Ethan Allen and the schooner Mary Eveline came in collision while navigating the East River, near […]

83 U.S. 351 83 U.S. 351 21 L.Ed. 280 16 Wall. 351 MARQUEZEv.BLOOM. December Term, 1872 1 ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. 2 Marqueze & Co. brought this suit in the Fourth District Court of the Parish of Orleans, in Louisiana, on the […]

83 U.S. 331 83 U.S. 331 21 L.Ed. 339 16 Wall. 331 COFIELDv.McCLELLAND. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Supreme Court for the Territory of Colorado; the case being thus: The city of Denver, which is in the couty of Arapahoe, Colorado Territory, was originally laid out by a company or association of persons, on […]

83 U.S. 318 83 U.S. 318 21 L.Ed. 297 16 Wall. 318 RAILROAD COMPANYv.MANUFACTURING COMPANY. December Term, 1872 IN error to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; the case being thus: In October, 1865, at Jackson, a station on the Michigan Central Railroad, about seventy-five miles west of Detroit, one Bostwick delivered to […]

83 U.S. 33 83 U.S. 33 21 L.Ed. 465 16 Wall. 33 THE COMMERCE. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. The steamer Commerce was proceeding down the Chesapeake Bay, in a southeast course, on an evening of January, 1870; the schooner Seamen trying to sail up in a […]

83 U.S. 271 83 U.S. 271 21 L.Ed. 313 16 Wall. 271 CARPENTERv.LONGAN. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of Colorado Territory. Messrs. J. M. Carlisle and J. D. McPherson, for the appellant; Messrs. Bartley and Casey contra. Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court. 1 On […]

83 U.S. 277 83 U.S. 277 21 L.Ed. 280 16 Wall. 277 BUCHANANv.SMITH. December Term, 1872 1 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York, where the proofs, as conceived by the reporter, made a case essentially thus: 2 The Cascade Paper Manufacturing Company of Penn Yan, New York, had for […]

83 U.S. 310 83 U.S. 310 21 L.Ed. 356 16 Wall. 310 SLAWSONv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: An act of Congress, passed March 12th, 1863, and known as the ‘Captured and Abandoned Property Act,’ enacted that the Secretary of the Treasury might appoint agents to […]

83 U.S. 314 83 U.S. 314 21 L.Ed. 357 16 Wall. 314 WALKERv.WHITEHEAD. December Term, 1872 IN error to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. Mr. P. Phillips, for the plaintiff in error; no opposing counsel. Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The case, as […]

83 U.S. 203 83 U.S. 203 21 L.Ed. 447 16 Wall. 203 DAVISv.GRAY. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas; the case being thus: The State of Texas had at the times hereinafter named, certain public lands. A general land office was established at the capital of the […]

83 U.S. 244 83 U.S. 244 21 L.Ed. 326 16 Wall. 244 HUMPHREYv.PEGUES. December Term, 1872 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina; the case being thus: On the 16th of December, 1851, the legislature of South Carolina, by ‘an act to incorporate the Northeastern Railroad Company,’ chartered the corporation now […]

83 U.S. 250 83 U.S. 250 21 L.Ed. 278 16 Wall. 250 DICKINSONv.THE PLANTERS’ BANK. December Term, 1872 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee; the case being thus: One William Dickinson, a manufacturer of salt at Kanawha, in that part of Virginia now called West Virginia, had an agent selling the […]

83 U.S. 258 83 U.S. 258 21 L.Ed. 493 16 Wall. 258 INSURANCE COMPANYv.COMSTOCK. December Term, 1872 On motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867, which by its terms applies to all moneyed, business, or commercial […]

83 U.S. 196 83 U.S. 196 21 L.Ed. 465 16 Wall. 196 KOONTZv.NORTHERN BANK. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi; the case being thus: The Commercial Bank of Natchez owning certain property, and among it a dwelling attached to its banking-house, its property was placed, on an […]

83 U.S. 234 83 U.S. 234 21 L.Ed. 276 16 Wall. 234 PIERCE ET AL.v.CARSKADON. December Term, 1872 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia; the case being thus: In August, 1864, one Carskadon brought an action of trespass de bonis asportatis against Pierce, Williams, and others, in one of the State […]

83 U.S. 240 83 U.S. 240 21 L.Ed. 311 16 Wall. 240 PEABODY, COLLECTOR,v.STARK. December Term, 1872 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Stark brought an action in the court just named against Peabody. collector of internal revenue, to recover back as illegal a tax. The tax complained of as […]

83 U.S. 177 83 U.S. 177 21 L.Ed. 354 16 Wall. 177 THE CAYUGA. December Term, 1872 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case as appearing from the weight of testimony being thus: The Cayuga, a steamer engaged in towing canal-boats upon the Hudson River, took, on the […]